This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Olmsted County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
There are 25 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including one National Historic Landmark. A supplementary list includes five additional sites that were formerly on the National Register. Many of the county's listings are associated with the Mayo Clinic, an influential hospital and medical research facility founded in 1889.
1919 hotel dating to a guest accommodation boom fueled by Mayo Clinic patients. Later Rochester's only hotel open to Black patients and travelers, reflecting the diverse but segregated clientele the clinic brought to an otherwise homogeneous Midwestern town.[4]
Circa-1875 example of the timber-framed, three-bay barns built during a decade of increased agriculture in Olmsted County and a shift from wheat to diversified farming across southeast Minnesota.[6]
Elaborately ornamented house built circa 1888; one of the best preserved examples of Olmsted County's relatively small stock of Victorian residences.[9]
1895 through truss bridge significant for its association with Horace E. Horton (1843–1912), a bridge builder who began his career in Olmsted County and founded the regional Chicago Bridge & Iron Company in 1889.[11]
Well-preserved farmstead with an Italianate house and large barn dating to the 1870s, exemplifying rural Olmsted County's prosperous 19th-century farms.[12]
Home of a mechanical contracting firm in operation 1909–1929, significant for designing and constructing much of the specialized equipment and facilities that helped boost the Mayo Clinic to national prominence.[13]
15-block neighborhood long fashionable among Rochester's numerous medical professionals, with 133 contributing properties exhibiting the architectural styles popular in the first three decades of the 20th century.[19]
Both the oldest purpose-built and continuously used Masonic Temple in Minnesota, built in 1868; with a first floor community hall long serving as the area's social center.[20]
Prominent 1915 example of the medieval fortress design popular for early-20th-century armories, and the local focus of Minnesota National Guard activity into the 1970s.[23]
Locally rare surviving mid-19th-century farmstead complex with three architecturally distinctive buildings.[26] Preserved on the grounds of the History Center of Olmsted County.[27]
Interconnected stone barns built circa 1870; one of Minnesota's finest surviving masonry farm complexes and a symbol of its New Englander pioneers.[28]
Creamery in operation 1924–1948, representing the cooperative dairy movement of the first half of the 20th century and the heyday of small, specialty creameries.[29]
Well-preserved example of an Italianate house, built in 1875 during Rochester's initial development as a center of agricultural commerce.[31] Now the Heritage House Victorian Museum.[32]
^ abNumbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
^The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
^Granger, Susan; Scott Kelly (March 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Benike Family Barn" (Document). National Park Service.
